Merlin Daleman

Merlin Daleman (b. 1977) lives and works in the Netherlands. He studied at South Devon College in Torquay and at the University of Central England (now Birmingham City University) in the United Kingdom, before graduating from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, in the Netherlands. He works as a freelance documentary photographer for major Dutch publications, including NRC Handelsblad, Dagblad Trouw, Financieel Dagblad, and De Groene Amsterdammer. He has received several awards, including the Silver Camera for documentary photography in the Netherlands in 2008 and 2010, as well as funding from the EU Journalism Foundation Grant and the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship. Mutiny builds on his long-term projects, including one on the new epidemic of pneumoconiosis in Kentucky, USA, and his exploration of the lives of families separated by labor migration in Ukraine.